The DLA Piper UK TMT team is jointly steered by Mark O’Conor, Nick Fitzpatrick, and Mike Conradi who advise clients across a range of industries on contentious and non-contentious technology matters. Fitzpatrick has extensive experience negotiating and structuring complex arrangements for major sporting and other events, while Conradi provides regulatory and commercial advice to global governments, regulators and businesses. O’Conor assists clients on cloud and digital transformation and public procurement and outsourcing. Other key team members include Kit Burden and Anthony Day. Linzi Penman was promoted to partner in May 2024.
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‘DLA Piper are always quick to respond and thorough and diligent in their contracting. They are understanding of our business needs and work with the best intentions for our company. They have great commercial awareness within the industry, and are flexible in appreciating that we often have slightly different requirements to that of a typical distribution company. The staff are friendly, personable, and easy to talk to. I never get the feeling that we are asking too much of them, even when we have a week with a particularly heavy workload. They communicate expected deadlines well.’
Key clients
- Infosys
- Hiscox
- G4S
- Aviva
- Discovery Communications LLC; Liberty Global
- Dentsu Group Inc.
- Thomson Reuters
- THG
- UK Government's Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- LEGO
- ITV
- The Football Association Premier League (the Premier League)
- British Airways
- National grid
- LSEG
- Morningstar
- Wickes
- Handelsbanken
- Ericsson
- Reckitt Benckiser
Work highlights
Acting as the legal adviser to the UK Ministry of Defence in relation to the Armed Forces Recruiting Programme on all aspects of this long term, GBP1.8 billion project to combine recruitment across all three Armed Services for the first time.
Advised Aviva on its long term partnership with Manchester City Council and Factory International which includes landmark support for Manchester’s iconic new arts and culture venue to be named Aviva Studios.
Representing Ooredoo Group (Ooredoo), a Qatari multinational telecommunications company, in entering into definitive agreements with Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.P.C (Zain Group) and TASC Towers Holding to create the largest independent tower company in the MENA region valued at USD2.2 billion.
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Practice head
Mark O’Conor; Nick Fitzpatrick; Mike Conradi
Other key lawyers
Kit Burden; Anthony Day; Linzi Penman